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kill(pid, 0) issue
- From: Nowakowski Maciej-AMN011 <maciej dot nowakowski at motorola dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:23:20 +0100
- Subject: kill(pid, 0) issue
Hi all,
My application creates additional process using fork() function. Created child process listens on a socket and exits when it receives anything. The main process checks the child PID using kill(pid, 0) with child PID as a parameter. Even when the child has exited this function call returns 0. When I have supplied any PID which hasn't ever existed it's fine and kill(non-existentPID, 0) returns -1.
Has anyone experienced something like this?
I'm using Cygwin 1.5.5 version(DLL version).
Regards,
MacNowak
P.S. For now I'm using kill(pid, SIGCONT) as a workaround.
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